LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY.
DISSATISFIED RAILWAY MEN. Press Association. AUCKLAND, Yesterday. About three months ago the Railway Department, in order to expedite quarrying work in collection with the Auckland-Penrose duplication, erected a steam rock drill, which ln.s ben doing excellent work. The mi n who formerly did hand-drilling were put on navvying. The feed screw of the drill is now missing, and it will be some days before it can l:e replaced. It has been stated that there has been dissatisfaction among the men affected,' and a covert threat was made that if the .use of the drill continued means would bo found to render it useless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 1
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105LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 1
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